Best of Show: Treyc Fowler takes top honors for 'Skater Girl' painting

By CARIE CANTERBURY canterburyc@cañoncitydailyrecord.com

Posted:
04/30/2013 09:55:03 PM MDT

Visitors check out the entries to this year's student art show Tuesday at the Pueblo Community College Fremont Campus. (Jeff Shane/ Daily Record)

As students at the Fremont Campus of Pueblo Community College rinse their paint brushes one last time, fold up their easels and pack away their digital cameras to conclude the spring semester, their works of art are on display for one more week for the public to enjoy.

Students in Ken Thompson's drawing and painting classes and Marianne Beel's photography classes were recognized during a reception and award ceremony Tuesday at the campus.

Treyc Fowler earned Best of Show for her painting, "Skater Girl," that features her daughter, Skyler. The award is accompanied by a $500 scholarship at the college.

Fowler, 32, is wrapping up her first semester at the college. In addition to the painting class, she also took a photography class. She said she was surprised to earn the Best of Show ribbon.

"I love to paint, and I want to become a better painter," she said. "I have been doing art since I was a kid, but I just started painting again in 2010."

Fowler attended the Colorado Institute of Art after high school, but put her degree on hold while her children were young. She and her husband, Michael, have three children, ages 7, 11 and 13. She works part-time at Home Depot and is working toward earning an associate's of art degree. She hopes to become a full-time artist.

"I am super proud of her," Michael said. "She works really, really hard at this and has been working hard at this for a long time.

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Fowler has been a featured artist at several local galleries, and her work has been on display at Michael's on Main, Boomer's Emporium and currently at Evo Tat Studio and the Pour House in Florence.

"She's been working hard to make a business and a career out of this," Michael said. "It is very refreshing to see her be this successful."

Painting offers Fowler a way to relax and unwind.

"It's a way to get stuff out of my head and onto canvas," she said.

In addition to Beel and Thompson, PCC President Patty Erjavec, Fremont Campus Dean Dr. Lana Carter and Ken Hartman, show juror, attended Tuesday's event. The campus' guitar class under the direction of Roxy Brookman also played a selection of music.

"You've all heard the saying that the eyes are a window to the soul," Carter said. "I strongly believe that art and music are the true windows to the soul, and tonight we witnessed some really beautiful souls as well as some very interesting ones. They are all wonderful, wonderful works of creation."

The student show is on display at the campus, 51320 W. U.S. 50, through May 8 during regular campus hours.

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